Are you familiar with the concept of “nuisance wildlife management”? It involves the removal of problematic or invasive species from areas where they are not wanted. Before you get all huffy and invoke the wraith of PETA, the idea is to protect humans from the transfer of diseases permitted by wild animals or protecting crops […]
via Arch Stanton Guest Post: Episode 13 in Today I Learned – The Great Emu War — Musings and Malarkey
Etosha National Park is known as one of the world’s greatest wildlife-viewing venues. It’s got four out of the big five. Luckily, we’d already seen the one that they didn’t have, the buffalo, in Chobe National Park at the beginning of our trip. There’s also this group of animals called the ugly five: hyena, vulture, […]
Image credit: © Thomas Krumenacker, http://www.krumenacker.de. The newly-discovered species, named the Desert Tawny Owl, belongs to the earless owl genus, Strix. It is a medium-sized owl, 30 to 33 centimeters long, and weighing 140 to 220 grams. It resembles the Hume’s Owl (Strix butleri) and the Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) in plumage pattern and proportions. […]
This 2016 video sdays about itself: This mini-documentary explores the astounding seabird colonies of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The tiny islands of the Chagos Archipelago are havens for nesting birds, and a precious resource in the vastness of the Indian Ocean. Stewart McPherson was given rare access to visit several islands of the Territory […]
via LED lights can save seabirds’ lives — Dear Kitty. Some blog
Compassionate Conservation is proposed as a “growing international movement that seeks to build the welfare of individual animals into conservation practice. Achieved by promoting change, acceptance and education to reduce intended or unintentional harm to wildlife”. Its core principals are built around the assertation that, in our quest to conserve vulnerable species, humans should refrain […]
via Compassionate Conservation or admirable ignorance? — James Common
